| 单词 | creature competition |
| 释义 | > as lemmascreature competition a. attributive, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or connected with creatures’, as creature attraction, creature competition, etc. ΚΠ 1654 J. Norton Orthodox Evangelist 262 All creature-effects (i.e. all such effects, as proceed from the creature,..) presuppose a principle, virtually, or formally, containing such effects. 1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 59 All creature-competitions would then be..impossible. 1689 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 364 He is both Jachin and Boaz too; our creature-props are neither. 1740 Diary A. Brodie 130 How moderate should our Expectations and Joys be of Creature-hopes! 1826 W. Jay Christian Contemplated ii. 56 Another prevention is to be found in creature attraction, and worldly cares. 1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray I. ix. 184 You and I should be governed..by a sense of duty, rather than by the poor creature-longings of the heart. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 13/1 The war was going badly, the officials charged with seeing to the Army's creature needs were doing almost nothing right. < as lemmas |
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